15th anniversary of Hurricane Floyd marked

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Tuesday marks 15 years since Hurricane Floyd flooded much of eastern North Carolina.

The storm's 110-mile-per-hour winds made landfall in the early morning hours near Cape Fear.

By the time it left the state, 52 people were dead, 7,000 homes were destroyed, and another 56,000 damaged.

The town of Princeville, Edgecombe County was swallowed up by the floodwaters.

The Department of Public Safety says it was the state's costliest disaster at $6 billion.

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